(1944-11-28) November 28, 1944 (age 79) Hanover, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
poet
screenwriter
activist
Education
University of Florida Broward College New York University (BA) School of Visual Arts Union Institute and University (MA, PhD)
Literary movement
LGBT rights, lesbian movement, feminism
Website
www.ritamaebrownbooks.com
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown was active in a number of civil rights campaigns and criticized the marginalization of lesbians within feminist groups. Brown received the Pioneer Award for lifetime achievement at the Lambda Literary Awards in 2015.
RitaMaeBrown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. Brown...
Rubyfruit Jungle is the first novel by RitaMaeBrown. Published in 1973, it was remarkable in its day for its explicit portrayal of lesbianism. The novel...
1982 American slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by RitaMaeBrown. It is the first installment in the Slumber Party Massacre series, and...
York City on May 1, 1970. Members included Karla Jay, Martha Shelley, RitaMaeBrown, Lois Hart, Barbara Love, Ellen Shumsky, Artemis March, Cynthia Funk...
cozy-mystery detectives, notably in the work of Lilian Jackson Braun and RitaMaeBrown; herbalists appear frequently (of whom the best known is Ellis Peters'...
on The New York Times Best Seller List. Novelist and book reviewer RitaMaeBrown told readers of The Washington Post in 1979 that Kilgallen had expressed...
(August 13, 1981). "RitaMaeBrown, Martina Navratilova &". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 29, 2018. Brown, RitaMae (1997). Rita Will: Memoir of a...
ISBN 978-1-68261-443-3 RitaMaeBrown (November 18, 1979). "What Did Dorothy Know?". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 27, 2020. RitaMaeBrown (November 18...
The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQ Activism, written by RitaMaeBrown, was written about Nyad. Nyad has said that overcoming her childhood...
involved in it. Some key thinkers and activists include Charlotte Bunch, RitaMaeBrown, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Mary Daly, Sheila Jeffreys...
American drama television film, directed by Bill Bixby and written by RitaMaeBrown, based on the 1992 novel Graced Land by Laura Kalpakian. It stars Roseanne...
novel of this era was the picaresque 1973 novel Rubyfruit Jungle by RitaMaeBrown, which became a national best-seller. Jill Johnston argued for lesbian...
coulda listened to them the way you been listening to us right now." RitaMaeBrown states that "The different voices are beautifully realized but confusing...
lesbian, admitted to being bisexual, had very public relationships with RitaMaeBrown and Judy Nelson, and acquired as much press about her sexuality as she...
Venus Envy could be: Venus Envy (novel), by RitaMaeBrown Venus Envy (album), a 1998 album by the band Diesel Boy Venus Envy (sex shop), a Canadian sex...
Gomez, RitaMaeBrown, Craig Lucas, Arnie Kantrowitz, Barbara Gittings, Barbara Smith, Larry Kramer and Barney Frank. Dorothy Allison RitaMaeBrown Anita...
Fosters. Flannery has an adopted daughter, Blaise. Gay rights activist RitaMaeBrown socialized with Flannery in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. They met through...